Massena, IA
Massena, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Massena at the 56th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 293 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Massena's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 57th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Massena rates 85% Minimal exposure against just 15% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 293 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Massena compares
Compare Massena's two percentiles: 78th within Iowa, only 56th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Massena ranks 13,733 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,815 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 228 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Massena and the insurance market
At the 56th national percentile, Massena rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Massena
Massena's 85% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Massena's 13,733-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Massena, see the exposure-zones guide.